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'Mother, Wife, And Queen': Tennyson's (Varying) Dedication To Queen Victoria, Patrick G. Scott
'Mother, Wife, And Queen': Tennyson's (Varying) Dedication To Queen Victoria, Patrick G. Scott
Patrick Scott
Discusses the literary precedents, manuscripts, composition, and biographical context for Tennyson's poem "To the Queen," first published in Match 1851, and argues that Tennyson's attitudes toward Queen Victoria and to his role as Poet Laureate were more nuanced and more conflicted than most critics have recognized.
Tennyson's "Enoch Arden": A Victorian Best-Seller, Patrick G. Scott
Tennyson's "Enoch Arden": A Victorian Best-Seller, Patrick G. Scott
Patrick Scott
Examines the reception, sources, composition and publication history, and narrative structure of Tennyson's bestselling narrative poem Enoch Arden (1864), discussing particularly the poem's relation to the sensation novel and the way it was interpreted by its first illustrators, in adaptation for the stage, and in early film versions by D.W. Griffiths and J. M. East.